Bubba Hines
Fractal CTO Services at Signature Tech Studio, Inc.
Lowell, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorBubba Hines is a results-driven technology executive and fractional CTO with 15+ years of experience leading engineering, security, and operations across finance and enterprise environments. He combines hands-on expertise across the full SDLC—including solution architecture, DevOps, and software supply chain—with a strong foundation in identity, access management, compliance, and risk. Known for building and scaling high-performing teams, Bubba excels in complex, matrixed organizations and in cost-effective, contract-based leadership for startups and SMBs. His open-source DevOps work includes low-level runtime builds for the popular brefphp project, demonstrating deep systems knowledge of compiling PHP runtimes and packaging dependencies for AWS Lambda. A former Navy cryptologic technician, he brings mission-focused discipline and resilience to technology strategy and execution. Based in Lowell, North Carolina, he blends practical engineering craft with strategic product-level thinking to deliver measurable ROI.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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top-5%
Github Skills (27)
docker10
aws-lambda10
makefile10
dockers10
php10
build-automation10
serverless10
zip9
cicd9
bash9
cloud-infrastructure9
openssl9
curl9
libsodium8
postgrest8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
brefphp/bref
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:81 commits, 4 PRs, 71 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bubba's contributions focus on building and configuring the runtime environment for PHP applications on AWS Lambda. Their commits primarily involve creating Makefiles to build dependencies like zlib, libxml2, libwebp, libsodium, postgres, libpng, phpvips, PHP itself, php memcached, openssl, nasm, memcached, libzip, libssh2, libjpeg, imagick, imagemagick, igbinary, libicu, and curl. Additionally, they set up the necessary Dockerfiles for compiling and exporting the PHP runtime, including configuring environment variables, installing tools, and preparing the final deployment artifacts.
lambda-layeraws-lambdaphpserverlessbref
bubba-h57/dotfiles
Jun 2018 - Sep 2020
The coolest dotfiles on the web.
Contributions:113 commits, 3 PRs, 62 pushes in 2 years 2 months
dotfilesvimzsh
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